I arrived to Cannes two days before planned and even the festival wasn’t started yet. On the road we saw Custom officers seeking prospective drug smugglers on each checkpoint and hundreds of police vans driving toward to Cannes.
Even there were some other beggars in the street; somehow those Police Officers didn’t like me to beg. First day I tried it on the main street, then afterwards near Monoplex supermarket where I earned very quickly some Euros.
Those Police Officers where convinced that town Meer does not like me sitting down in the street. What kind of Meer wants a person to die in hunger in his City? That’s what I asked from those Police Officers in bicycles.
Anyway, there is even some social food in this town. When you go up to the hill from the main street crossings from Avenue Grasse, you will find 17th of Avenue Tassingy a day center giving you morning coffee at 9 and some food around 12.30 like half of baguette, a pack of soup and maybe some fruit or something.
And this place is closed in weekends and holidays.
Anyway, I find a better place to raise some money at the end of Croisette and also find some coins in the street so each day I had enough food and vine to drink.
The weather was nice except one rainy day. It was fun when all those persons in tuxedos and girls in their best toilettes where sleeping in the front of the station with other local pums.
I missed my business contacts because without a credit, I wasn’t able to answer the phone and getting in somewhere I should have had an accreditation. And probably most of then movies would have been crap anyway. Beach Cinema was good showing Alan Parkers “The Wall” and Leningrad Cowboys with Red Army orchestra for example. And Norwegian film music before those films was surprisingly good.
Somehow I never find the Cannes in The Van guys showing the world smallest film festival shorts from their van.
There wasn’t much interesting personalities also in the street so practically I was bored and left before the end of the festival.
Looking at those people there I do not wonder that we don’t have any decent movies anymore.